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Show Us Your Shelter: Public Money Should Come With Public Accountability

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Michelle Robertson
Aug 31, 2026
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a brown and white dog behind a metal fence

Across the world, dogs are being taken from streets and communities and placed into publicly funded shelters, municipal facilities, pounds and other forms of accommodation. Governments and local authorities spend public money collecting, housing and managing those dogs, yet in many places it can be surprisingly difficult to establish something as basic …

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